"On paper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over from his desk and shook his new star by the hand. It was his way of ratifying a contract that was never put on paper, and over which no word of disagreement ever arose. Crane's connection with Charles ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
... cost of the book (twopence in the case of St. Margaret's, Westminster) was defrayed by the parishioners. The oldest extant register books are those thus acquired in 1597 or 1603. These volumes were of parchment, and entries were copied into them out of the old books on paper. The copyists, as we have seen, were indolent, and omitted characteristic points ...
— Books and Bookmen • Andrew Lang
... shall like it, and I think I shall remember this scene so well that I shall be able to put it down on paper as soon as I have learned to draw," ...
— Norman Vallery - How to Overcome Evil with Good • W.H.G. Kingston
... to leave all this and begin an entirely new life? How absurd it is on your part to worry yourself in order to help me! Alas! no, you cannot help me in this manner, only my "fame," and that is something entirely different from me. Nothing on paper can be of any use to me, and yet my whole intercourse with the world is entirely through paper. What can help me? My nights are mostly sleepless; weary and miserable, I rise from my bed to see a day ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)
... of the work had been laid down on paper more than a dozen years ago. During that interval (as also for several years before it) the materials had been accumulating; but still, when the work actually began to take shape, the writer was standing, as it were, at one end of a coil, of which he could not see the other; the windlass ...
— Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter • J. Conway Walter
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